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Petrus Theron
Asked: 2013-08-07 06:58:39 +0800 CST

How do I list all connected Salt Stack minions?

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Sometimes my saltmaster hangs for a while on salt '*' test.ping waiting for downed minions to reply. Is there a way so see a list of connected minions, regardless of whether they respond to test.ping?

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  1. Best Answer

    The official answer:

    salt-run manage.up

    Also useful are:

    salt-run manage.status

salt-run manage.down
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  2. From the master type:

    ls -1 /var/cache/salt/master/minions

    or:

    ls -1 /etc/salt/pki/master/minions

    Entering a faulty salt query (ex. salt '*' -) will also return a list of all the minions each followed by a message stating that the command is not available. You can grep/cut away the extraneous characters. Neither of these options are particularly elegant and the later doesn't address the timeout but it works while I'm looking for an answer to a similar question; "How to list all associated minions via the saltstack python api?".

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  3. There are few new commands that makes it much more easier,

    salt-run manage.alived Print a list of all minions that are up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent to minions)

    salt-run manage.allowed Print a list of all minions that are up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent to minions)

    salt-run manage.not_alived Print a list of all minions that are NOT up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent)

    salt-run manage.not_allowed Print a list of all minions that are NOT up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent)

    salt-run manage.not_joined Print a list of all minions that are NOT up according to Salt's presence detection (no commands will be sent)

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  4. "salt-key -L" will list all minions that whose public keys you've accepted on your master.

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  5. I think one can use the grains module to achieve this:

    salt '*' grains.get id
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  6. To make ping to all minions, try on salt master node: 

    salt '*' test.ping
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